I am completely inexperienced with this, but: - I have heard people around me say that with this type of grant support for preparation of a grant, professional grant writers should be hired. They help write the not-so-scientific portion of the grant. - I have heard first hand from a "Principal Administrator of a unit in DG CONNECT" that these writers do make a difference. - I have also heard that some of those grant writers work like tort lawyers, and get paid only if the grant is funded. They then get paid some percentage of the administration budget of the grant, and that this is allowed. I can ask for more details if you would like. Paul
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > At the occasion of a presentation of the European H2020 call for > grants, I started discussing opportunities for Sage with Eugénia > Shadlova (in charge of European projects at Université Paris-Sud) and > Jean-Pierre Caminade (research infrastructure mission in the french > research ministry). From those discussions, it seems a good bet could > be the call EINFRA-9: e-Infrastructure for Virtual Research > Environment. The time line would be a submission in January 2015, > with funding starting 8 month after the submission. > > So now is a good time to start thinking about it. This in particular > since the French CNRS INS2I institute is offering support (up to 5000 > euros) for preparing such proposals, with an application deadline on > the 21st (this Friday!). This money could be used e.g. to organize a > Sage-Days this year geared toward this grant (and real work too!). > > European H2020 calls concern countries in Europe as well as associated > countries and third countries as listed on [1]. Just to mention a > couple where I can think of Sage developers and users from the top of > my head, this includes e.g. Switzerland, Israel, Senegal, or South > Africa. > > If you would tentatively be interested in joining as a participant, > PI, or even better lead PI, please get in touch with me at any time, > specifying: > > - Name, e-mail > - trac & github account if you have them > - Status, institute (I can derive that from the main page of > trac.sagemath.org if the information there is up to date) > > I have setup a git project for this would-be proposal [2]. A mailing > list is coming too. I will add all the participants there so that they > can start editing the information. > > The draft of project grew up from previous attempts at the scale of > Sage-Combinat in France; there remains traces which should of course > be cleared. Also other grant opportunities c/should be explored! > (e.g. Paul-Olivier mentioned COST networks). And again: if anyone > feels like taking on / sharing the lead, please!!! > > Please forward this to whoever might be interested. > > Cheers, > Nicolas > > [1] > http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-funding-guide/cross-cutting-issues/international-cooperation_en.htm > [2] https://github.com/nthiery/sagemath-grant-europe/ > > -- > Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <[email protected]> > http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-combinat-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
